Staring out the window where fall has changed the leaves
To gold and bronze and red, some falling from the trees

Landing softly on the landscape among the plants still green
Beneath a clear crisp sky of blue and sun upon the scene

Gaggles of geese on the flyway heading for southern places
Across the heavens in vee shaped flocks that winter soon erases

The changing of the time from summer to a preview of the cold
That follows fall every year as nature's colors there unfold

When all but the evergreen their naked limbs soon will show
The scene of winter bitter cold and the falling of the snow

And when the snow shall cover the earth with a blanket white
We'll soon forget the beauty of the colors in our sight

When we gazed out our windows at the fading light of fall
And colored leaves brightly lit by heaven's golden ball

Were only there so briefly like a painting we've seen before
But couldn't take for our own - so wanted it even more